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"[to Barry Kane] Very pretty speech - youthful, passionate, idealistic. Need I remind you that you are the fugitive from justice, not I. I'm a prominent citizen, widely respected. You are an obscure workman wanted for committing an extremely unpopular crime. Now which of us do you think the police will believe?"
"You have all the makings of an outstanding boor."
"You're one of the ardent believers - a good American. Oh, there are millions like you. People who play along, without asking questions. I hate to use the word stupid, but it seems to be the only one that applies. The great masses, the moron millions. Well, there are a few of us unwilling to troop along... a few of us who are clever enough to see that there's much more to be done than just live small complacent lives, a few of us in America who desire a more profitable type of government. When you think about it, Mr. Kane, the competence of totalitarian nations is much higher than ours. They get things done."
"Power, yes... I want that as much as you want your job, or that girl. We all have different tastes as you can see, only I'm willing to back my tastes with the necessary force."
"[to Patricia as they dance at a party full of Nazi sympathizers] Right now, they're probably haggling over the price for us with Murder, Incorporated."
"Pat, this moment belongs to me. No matter what happens, they can never take it away from me. [another dancer cuts in and dances off with Pat]"
"[to Charles Tobin] Why is it that you sneer every time you refer to this country? You've done pretty well here. I don't get it."
"[Philip, a blind man, explains to Patricia why he believes Barry is innocent] Don't you know I can see a great deal farther than you can? I can see intangible things. For example, innocence."
"You'd like to say - IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE!... but every jolting scene is TRUE!!"
"3000 miles of terror!"
"Priscilla Lane - Patricia 'Pat' Martin"
"Robert Cummings - Barry Kane"
"Otto Kruger - Charles Tobin"
"Alan Baxter - Mr. Freeman"
"Clem Bevans - Neilson"
"Norman Lloyd - Frank Fry"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.